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R. O. DAVIS.

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Patented Jan. 5, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT C. DAVIS, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

HEEL.

SPEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 333,612, dated January 5, 1886.

Application filed September 11. 1885.

To all whom it may concern:

- Be it known that 1, ROBERT C. DAVIS, a citizen of the'United States, residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Heels, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to an improvement in heels for boots and shoes; and it consists in the peculiar construction and combination of devices that will be more fully set forth hereinafter, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a heel embodying my improvements applied to a shoe. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the heel-cap. Fig. 4 is a similar view of the heel plate and post.

A represents a metallic heel-plate, which is attached to the shoe by means of screws; or rivets may be employed for this purpose, if preferred. Depending from the heel-plate is a hollow metallic tube or post, Byopen at its lower end, and in which is fitted a core, 0, of cork, wood, or other suitable substance. The heel-cap D is made of metal or other suitable material, is shaped in any desired form, and is hollow, in order to render it light. The bottom of the cap is thickened, as at d, for wear, and has a countersunk opening, d, that aligns with the center of the post. The front upper side of the heel-cap has a projecting ledge, E, that bears under the rear end of the shank of the shoe and forms a guard therefor, and is secured thereto by means of screws that pass through openings 6 in the shank-guard. From the upper side of the heel-cap projects a flared counter guard or flange, F, that embraces the lower side of the counter of the boot or shoe and stiffens the same. Ascrew, G, passes through the opening (1 in the heelcap and enters the core in the post, and secures the heel-cap firmly to the heel-plate, while admitting of ready removal therefrom.

"When the heel-caps become worn unevenly on the bottoms they may be taken off and reversed, the right cap being placed on the left Serial No. 176,814. (No model.)

shoe, and vice versa, the caps being thus rendered reversible and enabled to Wear for a very long time.

In order to deaden the metallic sound, I interpose a sheet of rubber, H, between the heelplate and the heel. The elastic packing is seated in a recess or socket, h, formed in the shoe or boot,and the plate is fitted and secured over the packing, as shown in Fig. 2. the heel D and its shank and counter-braces concealing the plate and packing from view and protecting the same.

A heel thus constructed is cheap and simple, forms a brace for the shank and counter of the boot or shoe, is very light and durable, and is very ornamental.

I am aware that it is not new to provide a boot or shoe with a shank and counter-brace or stiffening-plate, and hence I disclaim such broad features of construction.

In order to define the nature and scope of my invention I would state that heretofore it has been proposed to provide a hollow metallic heel, which comprises a plate having the shell and a solid post depending therefrom, which has a threaded socket and a removable base-plate secured to the shell by a screw passing through the removable plate and entering the socket of the depending post, such devices being shown in Patents Nos. 62,587 and 250,975. My invention differs from these devices in the fact that the shell and wear-plates are made or cast in one piece of metal, and the shoe-plate has a hollow depending post having a core which rests on the base or wear plates of the shell, an elastic or rubber disk beingfitted in a recess in the heel above the shoeplate to deaden the sound and break the force when the heel suddenly strikes the ground or with force. A screw, passes through wearplate and enters the core of the hollow post, which serves to provide an efficient connection, and acts as a brace to stiffen and strengthen the parts and relieve the shell from any understrain and breakage.

I am also aware that itis not new to provide a base-plate with a shell, as the same is shown in Patent No. 62,783; but in this device the base plate has an upwardly-projecting central socket, having elastic paokings arranged therein, through which passes and bears a securhaving a perforated Wear-plate, acore or filling-screw that enters a threaded socket in a ing in the hollow'post B, and a screw passing plate secured to the heel. through the wear-plate of the shelland fitting 15 Having thus described my invention,- I in the core of the post, said post bearing 5 claim against the Wear-plate of the shell, as set forth. As a new article of manufacture, a heel corn- In testimony that I claim the foregoing as prising a plate,A,secured to the shoe and havmyown I have hereto affixed my signature in ing a downwardly-extending hollow post, B, presence of two Witnesses.

an elastic packing, H. seated in a recess be- ROBERT C. DAVIS. 10 tween the shoe and plate A, a shell, D bear- Attest:

ing against the shank and counter of the shoe J. W. GLAYPOOL,

to inclose the plate A and packing H, and M. D. ToBIN. 

